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Marinus was the oldest son of Gerrit Derk Dikken and Hendrika Christina Zwiersen. He was their
second child, born soon after a girl called Petronella ('Nellie'), who had died within a year
after birth.
Marinus Dikken was born on the 25th of February of 1919 in Rotterdam-Kralingen. At the outbreak of
the war in Holland in 1940, he served in the armed forces, corps engineers. After the surrender
of the Dutch to Nazi-Germany he returned home to Rotterdam, to find the city in ruins. His
parents, sister and two brothers had lived through the bombardment of the city in the few days
that the Dutch were able to resist the German attacks militarily. In the spring of 1942 the
family moved to Utrecht. There Marinus joined the armed resistance (as a member of the
paramilitary group that called itself the 'Landelijke Knokploegen'). Betrayed and arrested, he
was taken to camp Amersfoort, than to Vught, to Gilze-Rijen, to Mittelbau-Dora, and to Buchenwald
(camp Ellrich). According to the testimony of a friend who had made it back to Holland in 1945,
Marinus Dikken died on the 27th of March 1945 in Buchenwald, two weeks before the camp was
liberated (on April 11th) by the American forces. He was one of the 13,056 prisoners that died in
Buchenwald during the first three months of 1945 alone.
In the picture, Marinus (in army uniform) is standing next to his girl-friend, Tjiske, who wears
his cap.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Marinus Dikken

Jan Dikken
1862-1940
Petertje van Enk
1863-1940
Marinus Zwiersen
1860-????
Hendrika Christina Stremmelaar
1859-????

Marinus Dikken
1919-1945


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    Day of death March 27, 1945

    • The temperature on March 27, 1945 was between 3.6 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
    • From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
    • In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
      • January 25 » World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
      • January 26 » World War II: The Red Army begins encircling the German Fourth Army near Heiligenbeil in East Prussia, which will end in destruction of the 4th Army two months later.
      • February 9 » World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMSVenturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
      • March 19 » World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities, and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.
      • March 29 » World War II: The German 4th Army is almost destroyed by the Soviet Red Army.
      • April 27 » World War II: The last German formations withdraw from Finland to Norway. The Lapland War and thus, World War II in Finland, comes to an end and the Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn photograph is taken.
    

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